Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2013 Mar;54(1):46-63. doi: 10.1177/0022146512469629. Epub 2013 Jan 11.
Extensive research documents the relevance of families and socioeconomic resources to health. This article extends that research to sexual minorities, using 12 years of the National Health Interview Survey (N = 460,459) to examine self-evaluations of health among male and female adults living in same-sex and different-sex relationships. Adjusting for socioeconomic status eliminates differences between same- and different-sex cohabitors so that they have similarly higher odds of poor health relative to married persons. Results by gender reveal that the cohabitation disadvantage for health is more pronounced for different-sex cohabiting women than for men, but little difference exists between same-sex cohabiting men and women. Finally, the presence of children in the home is more protective for women's than men's health, but those protections are specific to married women. In all, the results elucidate the importance of relationship type, gender, and the presence of children when evaluating health.
大量研究文献证明了家庭和社会经济资源与健康的相关性。本文将这一研究扩展到了性少数群体，使用了 12 年的全国健康访谈调查（N=460459），调查了生活在同性和异性关系中的男性和女性成年人对自身健康的自我评价。调整社会经济地位消除了同性和异性同居者之间的差异，使他们相对于已婚人士更有可能健康状况不佳。按性别划分的结果表明，不同性别同居者的健康同居劣势对女性比男性更为明显，但同性同居者之间的差异很小。最后，家中有孩子对女性的健康比男性更具保护作用，但这些保护作用仅限于已婚女性。总之，这些结果阐明了在评估健康时，关系类型、性别和孩子的存在的重要性。
